A South Bay resident has been arrested for allegedly sending drug-tainted mail to a jail inmate, authorities said Friday.

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

Iswaran began his 12-month jail term from October after pleading guilty to obtaining valuable items from tycoon Ong Beng Seng ...

President Donald Trump's administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

The mayor of Pearsons — a town of just under 2,000 in Atkinson County — faces over 26 criminal charges, ranging from bribery, forgery and more.

Spanish police have recaptured the last two of five inmates who staged a spectacular escape last year from a Portuguese high-security prison after discovering the Argentine and the Briton working for ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Space is running out at the Sarasota County Jail, with it already being the second-most overcrowded jail in Florida. The Sarasota County Sheriff has been calling for a solution for years, but it's now ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber.

Mark Roscaleer disappeared after he scaled a 20ft wall with a ladder at a prison near Lisbon last September - and was finally ...

Ellison’s opinion finds that “Minnesota law does not authorize state and local officials to hold or arrest someone based on an immigration detainer.” ...

Plea documents in the case against a former Alabama jailer charged in the death of an inmate says officers intentionally kept ...